Rezillos at the ABC

Last Thursday the Threads folk were at the ABC filming and photographing The Rezillos playing in front of a huge LED video wall (everyone was worried this would create difficulties, but both Paul and Michael (our film guys) and I loved it - usually we're vying for every available photon).  I wasn't particularly familiar with the band before the gig but, as usual with Threads bands, really enjoyed the show.

Faye Fife and Jim Brady

Chris Agnew and Eugene Reynolds

And the giant mirrorball photographed from the upstairs bar:

Clydebuilt in The Herald

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Last year Jim Carruth arranged for all the Mirrorball  'Clydebuilt' mentees to get  free passes to the Glasgow Jazz Festival with the aim of producing a collection of jazz-poems.  

After going to lots of gigs and most of us being converted to  jazz fans of one shape or another in the process, the book duly appeared and was launched at a very entertaining (and short, as my father pointed out approvingly) event at the City Halls where all the poets read.  (It must be said that the book was brought into existence largely by sheer force-of-will on the part of Jim in the face of all sorts of funding cutbacks).

Anyway, apparently one of my poems from the anthology is The Herald's "Poem of the Day", which has cheered me up greatly in the face of a looming dental checkup.  It's based on a performance by the excellent Arun Ghosh Sextet, who can be seen here (albeit slightly depleted in numbers):

k.d. lang

One of the photos from tonight's k.d. lang gig at the Armadillo. This was the biggest gig I've done so far and they were much stricter about the whole "3 songs and you're out" bit - in that you were actually out of the hall at that point rather than just merging with the rest of the non-photo-taking audience. My kit was relentlessly mocked as the other photographers had much bigger lenses than I had - indeed one had a lens that was just about bigger than me, but despite all this it was a very entertaining experience.

More shots of k.d. and her amazing, glowing shirt-tails coming soon at More Than The Music.